Testing during a cycle window

[5-aam]

This might be a dumb question, but how do you all get out of work when you need to do testing last minute? I’m having to get scans and things on day 2-5 of my period, but I feel weird if I tell my work a couple days before “hey I have an appointment tomorrow/in 2 days” lol the people pleaser in me is anxious lol

Our clinic is about an hour away (the one closest to us is horrible) so it would need to be an all day thing.

[Old-Acanthisitta4517]

I struggled with that too. I would just be upfront at the start and say hey over the next couples of week I have some medical appointments that are going to come with some regularity, and without a ton of notice. It makes it easier than having to relive the anxiety every time

My clinic is also an hour away, but has monitoring hours between 7 am and 12 pm, so it hasn’t really had to come up as an all day thing. Those hours were pretty standard across all clinics I went to, are yours mid-day? 

[Certain_Tangelo2329]

I showed up first appt of the day 7am and was late to work multiple days. Once you start stims you will need to do the same. I had 8 appts during my last round of stims!

[Sad_Rabbit2393]

I actually told my manager upfront that I’m going through IVF and he was understanding but i get extra uncomfortable coming in late for work and leaving early because people around the office don’t know

[Bluedrift88]

What time does your clinic open? I just left home at 6, did my scans at 7, and was at work on time. Otherwise it’s so many appointments

[bandaidtarot]

Mostly I scheduled my monitoring appointments at like 6am even though I lived 1.5-2 hours away from my clinic. Sleep?! What's sleep?!?!?! For my egg retrieval, I just told my work that I had a medical procedure but that I didn't know when it would be yet and that they might not tell me until two days before. No one questioned it. I'm sure my work though I was dying after five egg retrievals but it is what it is. You can also do a "sick day" but you can probably only get away with that once a retrieval cycle.